SUMMARY

• Analytical, instinctive and flexible IT professional with ademonstrated ability to develop high levels of corporate solutions and security in accelerating and cognizant industries.Reputation as a meticulous professional with ability to manage a large number of projects simultaneously with 6+ years of experience.
• Extensive experience in Cisco Switches and Router Configuration.
• Experienced Cisco Certified Network Engineer with System & Network analysis, design, implementing capacity planning with focus on performance tuning and support of large Networks.
• Experience in Cisco Routing and Switching using 3600, 3700, 3800, 5300, 6500, 7200,7600Nexus 7k, Nexus 5k, Nexus 2k& ASR 9000,1000 series routers.
• Migration of application, server, service groups from Citrix NetScaler to F5.
• Expert Level Knowledge of application migrations from Cisco ACE to F5 Load balancer.
• Performed the code upgrades on F5 from v10 to v11.
• In - depth knowledge and experience in WAN technologies including SONET Ring, ISDN, HDLC, Point to Point, ATM, MPLS and Frame Relay.
• Experience in Configuring and implementing VLAN, VTP domains, LAN switching and STP/RSTP.
• Experience in Cisco: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations (Frame-relay & MPLS), Routing protocol configurations (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP).
• Hands-on with VoIP and telecom equipment, standards and technologies.
• Experience in building and implementing access control lists (ACLs) depending on the needs of industry.
• Worked on Cisco PIX 500 series and ASA 5500 series Firewall providing support and configuring for NAT, PAT & advanced Firewall rules implementation. IPS on ASA’s with Botnet protection.
• Experience in DNS, DHCP, SMTP, FTP, HTTPS and web security architecture.
• Experience in configuring and supporting VPN and VPC on Cisco VPN concentrators and 2811 routers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Network Protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, RIPv2, ISIS, IGRP, TFTP, FTP, HTTP, SSH, HSRP, VRRP, ISL, CDP, SNMP, NAT, ICMP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ACL, VACL, VoIP.

Network Topologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, Gigabit Ethernet, OSI and TCP/IP layered architecture.

Cisco Equipment Expertise: Router models of experience 1800, 2500, 2600, 3600.

Firewall: Cisco ASA5585X, ASA5525, ASA5510, Pix525, 535 Switch Series 1900, 2900, 3500. Switch models of experience Cat 2800s, 3550s, 3750-E, 3800s, 4500s, 6500s and Nexus 7010.

Nexus Routers and Switches: 7k, 5k, 2k, 6509, 4609, 7609, 7201, 184, 2811, 2911, 2926, 2960, 3560, 4948 Series Nexus Routers and Nexus Switches.

Load Balancer: Cisco CSS, ACE, CitixNetscaler, F5 Networks (Big-IP LTM & GTM).

Design Tools: MS Visio Network Professional, MS-Project.

Switching concepts: VPC, VLAN, STP, RSTP, VTP, Ether Channel, Port Fast, IP Access control lists.

LAN: 10/100/1000 & 10 GBPS Ethernet.

WAN: MPLS, Frame Relay, Dialup, VoIP, Cisco Routers and Switches, CSU/DSUWLAN IEEE 802.11, PHY and MAC layer functionality, WLAN controller/Aruba/Meru.

Operating Systems: Windows Servers 2003/2008/2012 , Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP troubleshooting.

Network Monitoring Tools: Netscout, Confidential OVO and Node Manager, Solar winds, Splunk, Cascade, Wire shark, Packet tracer.

Traffic Generators: Versed with traffic generators tools such as spirent and Ixia.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Compiled diagrams in Visio of the WAN and LAN infrastructure.
• Experienced with server patching and network maintenance of LAN.
• Worked as a member of Global Telecom Engineering and Development, which is responsible for designing, Implementing and troubleshooting of all of kind of network requirements pertaining to the Data center environment.
• Supporting an enterprise network forDataCenterLAN.
• Maintained complex LAN/WAN networks with several VLANS and provided support for routing protocols. OSPF, RIP, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Configured and troubleshoot VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP and Trunks.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and VPC configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet channel between switches
• Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external escalation procedures and customer notifications. Configured Routers for OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Worked on HSRP and GLBP for first hop redundancy and load balancing.
• Installed and configured PIX 520, 525, 535 series firewalls, configured standard and extended access -lists and policy- based filters.
• Configured the router as IP Firewall.
• Configured ASA 5510 appliance as a Firewall and as a VPN server.
• Implemented SNMP on routes to allow for network management. Completed the installation and Configuration of CSU/DSU, T1, T3 & OC3 circuits.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Infrastructure Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migration of application, server, service groups from F5 to Citrix NetScaler.
• Citrix NetScaler Configuration & Administration.
• Configured and monitored ASA5585X with 10GB connectivity to Nexus 7010.
• Design, configuration and operational support of Nexus 7k,5k,2k, 6509, 4609, 7609, 7201, 184, 2811, 2911, 2926, 2960, 3560, 4948 Series Nexus Routers and Nexus Switches.
• Troubleshooting of Nexus 7k series NX-OS.
• Load Balancing experience on Web Applications using BIG-IP's F5 LTM and Cisco ACE 4710 load balancer.
• Configuring the dial peer and troubleshoot problem of analog dial in on the voice gateway2921 with CUBE’ and Working for Analog Phone gateway VG 248.
• Upgraded the Cisco Secure ACS server from v5.2 to v5.3.
• Implementing F5 application-centric load balancing solutions and monitoring them.
• Implementing LWAPP on WLAN to route packets.
• Work with static NAT, dynamic NAT, inside Global Address Overloading, TCP overload distribution, Overlapping Address Translation.
• Analyzed Network design to determine what were the major problems and improvements needed to be made to the network infrastructure. Configured VPN and IPSEC/GRE tunnel on VXR 7201, 1841, 2911, and 2811.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Network Administrator responsible for the full Planning, designing, installation and administration of the Corporate WAN (wide area network).
• Configuration, Management, Troubleshooting of Network devices (Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Servers, DSL Modems etc.).
• Worked on Routers Cisco 2620, Cisco 3750, and Cisco 2950 Switches & Link sys wireless access points.
• Routing related tasks included providing Cisco router configuration, providing technical supportfor Cisco Router configurations and installation for Customer.
• Troubleshooting with MPLS L3 VPNS.
• Implementing F5 application-centric load balancing solutions and monitoring them.
• Configuring routing protocols such as RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and configured HSRP for first hop redundancy and load balancing.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and VPC configuring ISL trunk on Fast- Ethernet channel between switches.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of LAN/ WAN.
• Worked as an operational support engineer for various WAN problems.
• Supporting an enterprise network forDataCenterLAN.
• Implementing fabric path, spine and leaf Data center.
• Assist in the implementation of a global load balancer configuration using the Citrix NetScaler
• Design, configuration and Installation of Cisco routers and catalyst switches.
• Design, configuration and operational support of Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k Series Nexus Routers and Nexus Switches.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, configuration and installation of Cisco routers and catalyst switches.
• Installation and Configuration of LAN/ WAN set up for Clients with support of Data Center LAN.
• Planning, designing of Corporate Network architecture and implementing in distributed environment with future expansion option.
• Maintaining & Analysis of LAN infrastructure, firewall logs, IP tables, Network usage details etc